Sunday, May 6, 2012

1984 New York Mets Road Blue Alt

Baseball Tonight just aired a piece on National manager Davey Johnson and aired some clips of the 1984 Mets, including this shot on Darryl Strawberry wearing the blue alt in a game at Houston against the Astros.


According to Bill Henderson's guide, the Mets wore this Royal Blue alt from 1983 through 1985...


 ...and Bill says he doesn't believe the Baseball To The Nines site depicts it accurately -- they have it being worn from 1982 through 1984.



OK, so all you would-be Diamond Uniform Database research sleuths out there, can you pin down the date the Mets wore the blue Alts at Houston in 1984 in the above screenshot?  (If, that is, this clip was indeed from '84.)

Strawberry played in Mets games at Houston on April 6-8, July 16-18.  I'm guessing it was April 8, because I'm guessing the last game of a three game set ending the opening week of the season was on a Sunday (Mets played on April 2 and off on the 3rd and then played 4, 5, 6, etc... so I'm guessing the 2nd was the typical Monday opening day and therefore the 8th likely to be a Sunday and a day game, and the lighting in the picture looks like a day game. 

Also, if they were looking for file footage of the "1984 Mets", maybe they looked and if the footage they were looking through was cataloged in order, and they were looking for the first shot of Strawberry they could find, it'd makes sense that the first footage of him that they'd come upon would be from the first week of the season.

So that's my guess, Sunday April 8, 1984.  But I guess I got a 1:6 chance of being right -- if the clip was indeed from 1984.



1 comment:

  1. Neither Bill Henderson, Dressed to the Nines nor your guess are exactly right.

    The Mets wore that road alt in 1983 and 1984 only, so Bill is wrong. Dressed is wrong, because while the Mets wore a blue alt in 1982, it was this one:

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sMzHNUirtdE/RleGSyJqhVI/AAAAAAAAAC0/UF1yR1hiVEM/s400/83F_553_Rajsich.jpg

    As for the 1984 game in Houston, on April 7, Dwight Gooden made his first MLB start and got a win. I am 100% sure the Mets wore blue that night. They didn't wear blue much, so I would bet that is the game in the video. Makes sense also that such an important game would have its video on file.

    I know Bill revised the Met section heavily in he new edition, as I contributed to it.

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